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Pledges Made at Paris Climate Talks Will Not Contain Global Warming
2016-07-02 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: National promises made late last year to contain carbon dioxide emissions will not be nearly enough to meet the global warming target agreed last December by 195 nations, according to a new assessment. The signatories to the historic agreement at the UN conference on climate change in Paris pledged to limit global warming to below 2°C and to aim for no more than 1.5°C rise above pre-industrial levels. The planet has already warmed by 1°C in the last century. But, climate scientists say, the...
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